Subject: Re: VAX magtape TU81
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: saad mogren <s_mogren@yahoo.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 05/15/2001 14:52:02
der,
many thanks for yur reply, what about SUN machine does
it have Qbus interface,
saad
--- der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> wrote:
> > is there a way to connect TU81 to linux pc, is
> there a Qbus card
> > which can be installed or compatible with intel
> pc.
> 
> Sure, if the pc in question has a Qbus.
> 
> I've never heard of an Intel-based machine with a
> Qbus.  Someone
> somewhere may have made a PCI-to-Qbus or ISA-to-Qbus
> bridge, and with
> that and a Qbus backplane you could conceivably set
> up the hardware.
> I'd be astonished if the software to support it
> exists, though.  (It'd
> be a Really Cool Hack to add to NetBSD, though, and
> a good illustration
> of the power of our attachment framework.  If
> /sys/dev/qbus has been
> properly bus_{space,dma}ified, that is. :-)
> 
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